Hey everybody, quick update:

“Will It Rain?” version 1.1 is now in the App Store. It includes some pretty cool updates, including a better looking UI, snow detection, and a better algorithm for determining the likelihood of rain/snow depending on what time you launch the app.

The price is now a firm “free, but ad supported”. I experimented briefly (under 48 hours) with selling this app at $0.99, but users were unwilling to pay for this product so I knocked it down to Free. Unfortunately Apple’s NDA prevents me from saying specific numbers, but a few, and I do mean few, users paid $0.99 for this.  If you’re one of the chosen less-than-a-dozen, I’m sorry.  I’m fairly certain almost everyone who paid for it is someone I know offline, so if you’re one of those, let me know.  I’ll buy you a drink or send you an Amazon gift card or something.

Well that’s it! It’s a pretty big update as far as being more accurate and supporting different weather types, plus I’ve got more features in the works for 1.2.

“Will It Rain?” was released yesterday on to the App Store.  It answers the age-old question, “Will It Rain?” and tells you, in plain English, just how likely it is to rain in the next day or so.  And for only $0.99 free, what a deal.

Read more about it here.

It’s been a while since I posted so I thought I’d share a useful tool for OS X that can make your programming life a bit easier.

Visor for OS X is a SIMBL plugin that lets you quickly access your Terminal by use of a hotkey (I prefer the “ctl + ctl” one).  If you’re like me you probably hit the command line very frequently while developing to push or pull a file, or need to quickly look at a `tail -f` output.   Once you hit the hotkey you define, a shallow terminal drops down from the top of your screen and takes focus.  Hitting the hotkey again hides the terminal and returns focus to whatever you were working on.

It’s not a revolutionary app, but I’ve only used it for half a day and I already love it.  Just as a side-note: it seems to “take over” your Terminal.app, so if you want to also have a CLI that acts like Terminal.app does now, try a third party one like iTerm.

From TechDirt:

AT&T caught a lot of flak at the beginning of April, when it updated the terms of service for its mobile data network, banning all sorts of activities on it. AT&T later said the changes had been made in “error” and removed the new language, though it later reinserted language banning “redirecting television signals for viewing on Personal Computers” — a ban apparently aimed directly at the forthcoming SlingPlayer application for the iPhone, which lets users watch TV from their Slingbox at home on their mobile device.

Sounds reasonable, right?  Certainly you’d hate to lose your network connection because 5 people connected to your tower are streaming video.  However, consider the following:

AT&T’s “i-Verse” app works with their U-Verse TV solution that can either load DVR’ed shows from your U-Verse recorder into your iPhone at home, or stream shows across the net over their 3G network. The app was demoed last year behind closed doors and based on the reception then, prompted AT&T to go into full-time development on it.

Given the already restrictive nature of Apple’s App Store, the lack of customizable features of the iPhone (I still can’t display useful information on my locked screen or customize the colors of my text message bubbles!), and now AT&T throwing on their own layer of competitive lock-out, I think my next phone just might be an Android.

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